#but the paper itself is not ABOUT that

[e77y]

Reading the most horrifically long and convoluted research paper for my professional writing class. Good god

[halorvic]

[sysig]

The best! The very best of skeletons! (Patreon)

[kalpalatas]

(slowly unhinging) it wasn't the earrings and the touching that made hirano realise the entire actual depth of kagi's feelings for him. it was basketball.

[piosplayhouse]

Rumors are going around on twitter and weibo that starember might have left the tgcf manhua team omg.. they're unfounded right now but can we get a prayer circle going for hoping that it's true!! 🙏🙏🙏I'm so tired of their consistent racism and orientalism being passed around in the manhua space, people have been raising the alarm on it for literal years now

[nerdyqueerr]

The Ulysses Dies At Dawn research project thesis is COMPLETE. Lets fucking do this

[mayhems-cannon]

havent drawn on paper in a while waa

[xxplastic-cubexx]

what is your favorite thing about charles and your favorite thing about erik? separately, as in what you like most about their characters :]

a devious question this one is, my friend!!! it's hard enough for me to explain my thoughts cohesively, but having to pick ONE thing i particularly love is difficult. with characters like charles and erik, theres been so much done with their characters over the decades and so they have so many components to them that make them so interesting and fun to observe. BUT I TRY FOR YOU TODAY. under the cut i kinda ramble and the size of this text box makin me anxious

i think if i were to be simple and broad, what i enjoy most about charles is his determination to help others, even if he isn't really thanked and/or if people don't even like him. ofc, this isn't to say he hasn't done wrong- to be honest, the fact he does wrong/questionable things at times is another aspect of him i really enjoy, maybe because- broadly speaking- he's meant to be altruistic (intent vs outcome and all that). i don't know if that's super exciting to most people, but it is for me

as for erik, my reason for liking him is easier to explain tbh. To Be Simple And Broad, his progression from villain to antihero over the decades has been fun to observe (as much as i have so far anyhow) and analyze. i think to be a bit more specific, him using his rage and pain as justifications for his villainous actions is definitely what compels me the most: hurt people hurt and the sort, an idea i've always found interesting (something something vicious cycles and the like). yet now, he recognizes this wasn't really. A Just Thing To Do and is beginning to change that, which i enjoy

[pricechecktranslations]

Hi so is it okay to read novels and start from lust arc, then gluttony arc ect. Instead of reading pride arc novels first? Because my friend wants to read the novels but the time line is confusing for her and I know know in which order I should tell her to read the novels because I don't want her to get even more confused than she already is.

It's "okay" in the sense that this is a fictional series meant to be enjoyed casually and no one should be shamed about their choices regarding how they consume it (even if I do think it leads to a lesser reading experience), but if your intention is specifically to make the series less confusing then I personally think you're going about it the wrong way.

Issues with the timeline aside, Evillious as a series has a lot of concepts and worldbuilding to learn. Who certain characters are, how magic works, how demons work, the nature of the world, its countries, etc. The Daughter of Evil series (the Pride novels) introduces these concepts gradually. The plot of Cloture of Yellow can be easily described as "Fantasy French Revolution with some magic elements on the side"; the demons are barely even mentioned in them. It's mostly a political and character drama. Wiegenlied of Green, being an alternate perspective of Cloture, is able to explore more of the worldbuilding and fantasy concepts while still having the familiar setting and characters (and mostly being a romance, besides). Praeludium and Praefacio are then able to take the same setting and characters in a new direction that introduces yet more mechanics and character development for the bigger players in Evillious overall (like Elluka and Irina, the demons, etc).

The Lust novel then assumes you are already familiar with these concepts and just drops you immediately into how HER works, demonic contracts, etc.

To put it another way--the Pride novels prime you for the rest of Evillious. You build upon the foundation of your knowledge as you go. Like, I'm not going to judge someone who skips them because they find them boring or just aren't interested but I personally don't find "this book is a prequel to X" to be so difficult a concept that it's worth going out of order.

[hartxstarr-art]

they like to talk about how the sky is so, so, so far away.

[averlym]

ghostwriter (their grandma would tell them she'd lose half her soul)

[thebirdandhersong]

house on fire :)

[fantasy-costco]

We got a DVD player from goodwill for like 2 bucks so that we can watch dvds from the library in town this is a fucking game changer I'm so excited

[cakeonfire911-thesequel]

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[individuating]

umineko project / witch hunt / steam release translations of the red text at the end of episode 4

[aparticularbandit]

also i half want to engage with the idea that like

current areas of fandom (not around me but to which i've seen reactions) and the integrity of how you treat your characters and your characters are real people so you have to be considerate of how you write them/use them vs. no, characters are fictional, they are not real, they are narrative devices used to tell a story, and what you write in fiction doesn't mean you're okay with stuff

in light of

the end of drv3

where tsumugi would absolutely be right that these are fictional characters and their suffering doesn't matter - even if it's real, as shuichi states; even if their feelings are real - because they're not real

except that in the world of drv3, they took those characters and made them actual flesh and blood people, which is. different. than just writing something. they took what isn't real and gave it substance and reality.

yes, they're just characters, but the moment they became living breathing people they stop. being. just. characters?

like it makes that line so murky.

tsumugi is right in terms of fandom culture but she is wrong in light of what they're doing in drv3 because she didn't make the people sacrificing themselves on the altar of danganronpa, she just made the characters, and the moment the characters became the people they became more than just fictional characters

but the people who became those characters probably signed a waiver and consented to all of this beforehand? even though the characters themselves didn't?

like where is the line here, and how exactly did team danganronpa cross it, because i feel like they crossed it somewhere